light Quotes

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“I liked the area, it had great shade trees, and since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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“The sun—the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man—burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and...”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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“A fragile, unearthly prettiness has come out in Laura: she is like a piece of translucent glass touched by light, given a momentary radiance, not actual, not lasting.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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“But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favours such a confidence.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Let us gather together in the great cities, and light huge bonfires of a million gas-jets, and shout and sing together, and feel brave.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star . . . It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

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